Leonard Cohen SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE 1971 S69004 A3/B3 Graded Excellent
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Leonard Cohen SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE 1971 S69004 A3/B3 Graded Excellent
When Leonard Cohen was twenty-five, he was living in London, sitting in cold rooms writing sad poems. He got by on a three-thousand-dollar grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. This was 1960, long before he played the festival at the Isle of Wight in front of six hundred thousand people. In those days, he was a Jamesian Jew, the provincial abroad, a refugee from the Montreal literary scene. Cohen, whose family was both prominent and cultivated, had an ironical view of himself. He was a bohemian with a cushion whose first purchases in London were an Olivetti typewriter and a blue raincoat at Burberry. Even before he had much of an audience, he had a distinct idea of the audience he wanted. In a letter to his publisher, he said that he was out to reach “inner-directed adolescents, lovers in all degrees of anguish, disappointed Platonists, pornography-peepers, hair-handed monks and Popists.”
(David Remnick, The New Yorker)
I have graded the vinyl Excellent in line with Vinyl Factory guidelines, there are very few light play marks or where the vinyl has been out of its sleeve. Excellent – tolerating only very light marks where the vinyl has been in and out of the inner sleeve a few times, or tiny signs of use generally.
The sleeve I have graded Very Good Plus, as there are light signs of use and wear.
Matrix / Runout (Label, Side A): S 69004 A Matrix / Runout (Label, Side B): S 69004 B Matrix / Runout (Variation 1, Side A): S 69004 A3 Matrix / Runout (Variation 1, Side B): S 69004 B3 ∴ Matrix / Runout (Label, both sides): C 30103
